About me

Here's the bit about me.. a potted history.

I started life with a love of all things you put together, first Lego then Airfix kits then lots and lots and lots of other kits. In the meantime I went through school averagely and got thrown out of art college (this seems to happen to anyone who ends up in a career in art) and ended up following my Dads' lead studying building at college which in turn landed me with a number of jobs all in the building industry all of which I disliked on varying levels.

Throughout all of this I still painted pictures and dreamed of escaping from the building industry for a career in art. Time went on and by the time I was forty I'd been working at a Stonemasons as a Draughtsman for 13 years, during this time I'd tried my hand at sculpting and, to my surprise, I'd made a reasonable job of it. I carried on sculpting whenever I could, usually evenings weekends, holidays; whenever I had the chance I was squidging bits of modelling clay and trying to make them look like the pictures in my head. After much work and a few lucky breaks I managed to obtain my licence from Terry Pratchett to produce Discworld artefacts and later commissions from Clarecraft to sculpt Discworld figurines and finally a job offer from Clarecraft to be a Design Consultant and sculpt my own ranges, I'd finally done it, no more building!

The next year at Clarecraft was very creative and I learned a lot in a short time, but despite all of our efforts the competition from the Far East was so great that we couldn't keep the company going and sadly Clarecraft finally closed its doors at the end of 2005 after much battling to keep going against the odds.

Luckily for me during the last months at Clarecraft as people left for alternative employment I was drafted in to help with anything and everything, I learned how to make moulds, cast resin and pewter, work an airbrush properly, pretty much everything. So by the time Clarecraft had finished I had a working knowledge of how to manufacture my own items which I've been doing ever since.

I also still draw and paint. I still collect and build lots and lots of kits; I play guitar and Didgeridoo and have a fascination for anything old and interesting. Oh and I'm the biggest Kate Bush fan ever!

So, that's me. I hope you like my site and I hope you find something interesting.

Best wishes, Mark

	Here's the bit about me.. a potted history. I started life with a love of all things you put together, first Lego then Airfix kits then lots and lots and lots of other kits. In the meantime I went through school averagely and got thrown out of art college (this seems to happen to anyone who ends up in a career in art) and ended up following my Dads' lead studying building at college which in turn landed me with a number of jobs all in the building industry all of which I disliked on varying levels.

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		Throughout all of this I still painted pictures and dreamed of escaping from the building industry for a career in art. Time went on and by the time I was forty I'd been working at a Stonemasons as a Draughtsman for 13 years, during this time I'd tried my hand at sculpting and, to my surprise, I'd made a reasonable job of it. I carried on sculpting whenever I could, usually evenings weekends, holidays; whenever I had the chance I was squidging bits of modelling clay and trying to make them look like the pictures in my head. After much work and a few lucky breaks I managed to obtain my licence from Terry Pratchett to produce Discworld artefacts and later commissions from Clarecraft to sculpt Discworld figurines and finally a job offer from Clarecraft to be a Design Consultant and sculpt my own ranges, I'd finally done it, no more building!
	The next year at Clarecraft was very creative and I learned a lot in a short time, but despite all of our efforts the competition from the Far East was so great that we couldn't keep the company going and sadly Clarecraft finally closed its doors at the end of 2005 after much battling to keep going against the odds. Luckily for me during the last months at Clarecraft as people left for alternative employment I was drafted in to help with anything and everything, I learned how to make moulds, cast resin and pewter, work an airbrush properly, pretty much everything. So by the time Clarecraft had finished I had a working knowledge of how to manufacture my own items which I've been doing ever since. I also still draw and paint. I still collect and build lots and lots of kits; I play guitar and Didgeridoo and have a fascination for anything old and interesting. Oh and I'm the biggest Kate Bush fan ever! So, that's me. I hope you like my site and I hope you find something interesting. Best wishes, Mark